Easy Easter Wreath – using dollar store items

If you could whip out an easy, cheerful, bright and full Easter wreath for less than $20 and in about an hour wouldn’t you try? Then you’re definitely going to be all over this easy Easter wreath I made last week.

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Dollar stores are chock-full of Easter bits and bobs now, so I stocked up on supplies. I’ve actually over-bought here, I didn’t use the green deco mesh and you only need a few pipe cleaners.

Easy Easter Wreath Supplies

deco mesh in a few Spring colours

wire wreath form

wire ribbon/s

wire cutters

pipe cleaners

accessories to decorate

Deco mesh usually comes in rolls that are about 18″-24″ wide, and you can totally use those to make your wreath/centrepiece; it will make your wreath really large and full – unfortunately, you can’t usually find that size at the dollar store. Instead, pick up a few rolls of the smaller deco mesh which is easily available and is only about 6″ wide.

Cut your deco mesh into pieces that are about 8″ wide; enough to roll over themselves once.

You’ll be left with an explosion something like this:

Cut your ribbon pieces to 6″- 8″ and flag the tails (you can do this by folding your ribbon in half length-ways and cutting on an angle from the centre fold out towards the wired edges.

You’ll also want to cut up your pipe cleaners into thirds using your wire cutters.

Grab three pieces of deco mesh and a piece of ribbon and pinch them tightly in the centre. Any colour combination is fine.

Wrap your pipe cleaner piece around the pinched area and twist to hold.

Continue making these little bundles until you’ve used up all of your deco mesh.

You’ll have a new explosion that looks something like this:

To keep my easy Easter wreath random, I mixed up the colours in my bundles so that I wouldn’t get any pockets of colour. Alternatively, and I only thought about it after I had already finished, you could make all of your bundles white or orange and top your finished wreath with a bunny tail (so it looks like a giant bunny butt), or green deco mesh to look like a carrot patch.

I attached one bundle to each cross wire to make sure I had even spacing, then I filled in the gaps with additional bundles. At this point you don’t need to worry about fullness on your easy Easter wreath – it will come, so make sure you have enough deco mesh bundles for the remaining rings of your wire wreath form.

I divvied up the remaining bundles to make sure I had (roughly) an even amount for each ring.

Attach your bundles to the next ring, and then the next until you run out.

You could stop here and have an absolutely gorgeous wreath, but I decided to add a few little details to take it a step further.

You can use styrofoam eggs and either interweave the pegs into the mesh or hot glue a few eggs in place. I also added some bunny ear clips to the centre.

I wanted to create this easy Easter wreath to use as a centrepiece on my dining room table;

and because we used the 6″ deco mesh spools it is the perfect size (without taking over the entire eating space).

Your easy Easter wreath is however, full enough to use on your front door as well;

The grand total for this cutie is $15 (not including the ribbon which was leftover from last year) and it took me an hour from start to finish (and that’s including photographing the steps).

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Unfortunately it does fray a bit – but it adds to the puffy look and doesn’t look worn or weary. I’ll have to follow up on this comment next year – after it’s been in storage for awhile to confirm for sure.

Thank you for the lovely idea. Keeping two of my granddaughters tomorrow and was wondering what craft we could do. I think we will give this a try, thanks to your great instructions. Bet they will be tickled to hang on their own door.

Super simple! I used a 17″ wire wreath. Took about 2 hours altogether and cost me $14. I had to buy everything. Dollar stores are just full of treasures.
Thanks for the great idea!! It looks beautiful on my front door!!

Love all the colors and your decorations on the wreath!! I usually I make a loop then hang the loop on a hanger with a plastic bag from the dry cleaners to cover and store them in my walk in closet… this way they keep their shape and don’t get crushed❤️❤️❤️

Shelly, thank you for this great wreath project idea! I immediately went out and bought the supplies and put one together which turned out great. I will say, however, that my 12” wreath took WAY longer to complete than one hour. I had at least an hour and a half invested into cutting and trimming the deco mesh, which by the way I only used five colors. By the time I cut, trimmed, bundled, attached the bundles and added embellishments, from start to finish it added up to almost three hours for me. I must be slow!! A longer than anticipated project but WELL worth the time!

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